Word: bonthron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the tape a bare hundred yards away, however, Playfair surged by Woodland in a magnificent sprint. Increasing the gap with every stride, Harvard's captain broke the tape twenty-five yards ahead of his opponent, furnishing an almost precise duplicate of his victory over Bonthron in 1933, when Playfair overtook Princeton's ace runner some eighty yards from the tape, to lead the Mikkolamen to victory...
...this race two years ago that Bob Playfair ran Bonthron into the ground in the last hundred yards and won the race by a margin of six seconds over the first Yale man to place. Last year also Playfair won the race, and today he will go out for his third consecutive win, which should make a record of some sort...
Married, William Robert ("Bill") Bonthron, 22, Princeton miler; and Marion McLennan Lineaweaver, of Princeton, N. J.; in Montreal...
...last of the six events, the mile race contested by four young men from both sides of the world who have been individually chasing each other to fabulous marks for the past three years but who had never before met collectively. In the eight times that Princeton's Bonthron, Glenn Cunningham of Kansas and Gene Venzke of Pennsylvania have raced together, Cunningham has come home in front five times, Bonthron thrice. Bon-thron meantime has had a separate series with John Edward Lovelock, the little New Zealand medical student with a collection of blazers from Otago, Oxford and London...
...Indian file. At the half they spread in echelon, Cunningham in the lead. A slow third quarter saw Venzke trailing and by the time the gun rang out for the last lap it looked as if the long office hours in a Manhattan accounting firm were going to put Bonthron out of the race. Then things began to happen. Sailing down the home stretch with his mincing gait, Jack Lovelock stepped a full eight yards out in front of Cunningham, whose stocky figure suddenly went dead beat. Thereupon, "Bonny" Bonthron began pumping his hairy legs like pistons, passed Cunningham...